The management of papal collections and long-distance trade in the thirteenth-century Czech lands

Abstract

In the thirteenth century the Apostolic Camera entered on a new phase of development. The collection of crusading taxes, regularly assessed after the time of Innocent III (1198-1216), imposed new duties on the papal treasury, to which were committed both the collection and distribution of these assessments. Moreover, during the course of this century the system of payment in kind was transformed into a monetary system, a process considerably influenced by the administration of the papal finan...